FlashingBlade @FlashingBlade

Sixtysomething Englishman living and working in Cambodia, love life, film, books, music, MCFC, traveling etc theflashingblade.worpress.com Phnom Penh, Cambodia Joined April 2008

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FlashingBlade @FlashingBlade

a week ago

@afshineemrani @threadreaderapp unroll

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Let's do another RT competition for one of the new @ClubMerchandise Pep tshirts clubmerchandise.org/pep-guardiola-… If we get to 50 RTs I will pick one random person to win a It's Been F*cking Fun @PepTeam tee

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FlashingBlade @FlashingBlade

2 weeks ago

@thecityshack Tell you one thing I know for sure. It isn’t going to be decided by us on twitter!

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2 weeks ago

@MarxParlo70833 @RawaneOsmane Yep, the one they refused, as they did many since. History did not start at 1947 you disingenuous twat. That is what is being talked about here. Read a bit, then again maybe not and stay sure in your ignorance.

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Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane

2 weeks ago

“Free Palestine.” I grew up on those words. In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them. In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to. Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all. Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge. What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that. Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine. In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence? Palestine is still first. So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with. So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews. And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state? You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media. Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position. 📍#Israel

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FlashingBlade @FlashingBlade

2 weeks ago

@90ome @Priceless_MCI We’ll see.

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FlashingBlade @FlashingBlade

2 weeks ago

@IanCheeseman So sorry to read this Ian, only know you through the city stuff on BBC before and now the vids. Best wishes to you and your family. RIP Gary.

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FlashingBlade @FlashingBlade

2 weeks ago

@Blvckrose_435 @city_exclusives @Ekremkonur Because they won’t want to go to a bunch of losers.

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Lea @Lea_EFC

2 weeks ago

Liverpool FC: 💰Isak £125m 💰Wirtz £116.5m 💰Ekitike £79m 💰Jacquet £55m 💰Kerkez £40m 💰Mamardashvili £29.5m 💰Frimpong £29.5m 💰Leoni £26m 💰Pecsi £1.3m 💰Wright 200k Total £506.5m 💰 Champions* to finishing 5th after blowing over half a billion in transfers 😭😭😭

Toshi.bet 🈺 @ToshiBet

2 weeks ago

Now that it's all said and done, what team surprised you the most this season with their position in the table?

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Reza Pahlavi Communications @PahlaviComms

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3 weeks ago

@uunwanaobong3 @Priceless_MCI Last season wasn’t transition, it was all fall apart season. Two cups and pushed the champions to the penultimate day with a team that is in transition. Enjoy, bring on next season.